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9-letter words containing o, r, g, a

  • bank giro — a British giro system operated by clearing banks to enable customers to pay sums of money to others by credit transfer
  • baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
  • barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
  • bargepole — a long pole used to propel a barge
  • barograph — a self-recording aneroid barometer
  • beachgoer — a person who goes to the beach, esp frequently
  • beggardom — beggary (def 2).
  • beglamour — to endow with glamour
  • big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
  • big labor — large labor unions collectively.
  • bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
  • biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
  • boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
  • bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
  • bog paper — toilet paper
  • bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
  • boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
  • boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
  • borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
  • boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
  • bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
  • bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
  • brokerage — A brokerage or a brokerage firm is a company of brokers.
  • brown bag — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown-bag — If you brown-bag your lunch or you brown-bag it, you bring your lunch in a bag to work or school.
  • cagoulard — a member of a secret French organization, active 1932–40, that conspired to overthrow the Third Republic.
  • cairngorm — a smoky yellow, grey, or brown variety of quartz, used as a gemstone
  • calor gas — Calor gas is gas in liquid form which is sold in special containers so that people can use it in places which are not connected to the gas supply, such as tents or caravans.
  • carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
  • cargo bay — the large central area of the space shuttle orbiter's fuselage in which payloads and their support equipment are carried. Also called payload bay. Compare bay2 (def 2a).
  • carolling — a song, especially of joy.
  • carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
  • carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
  • cartogram — a map showing statistical information in diagrammatic form
  • cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
  • cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
  • cataloger — a person, normally in a library, who catalogues literary materials
  • categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
  • cavorting — to prance or caper about.
  • cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
  • ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
  • charangos — Plural form of charango.
  • chargeoff — Alternative spelling of charge off.
  • chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
  • chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
  • cigarillo — a small cigar often only slightly larger than a cigarette
  • cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
  • clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
  • clangours — Plural form of clangour.
  • cogitator — to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
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